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Playstation HOME: "Live in our world, play in ours"

Nintendo is PISSED about 'Home' and Littlebigplanet. Let the post GDC mudslinging begin.



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nintendo can go **** itself. they had thier chance to impress, the blew it with some kiddie console. yeah,i said it.
 
I want to buy a PS3 just for Home.
It looks amazing.
 
i want to buy a ps3 to lure you to my house.

Don't listen Speedball, don't fall for the shiny candy he's dangling in front of you. Run...run to the closest adult and scream really loud!
 
would'nt that be funny tho. if a litle kid was lured away to some house because of a ps3 offer?
 
would'nt that be funny tho. if a litle kid was lured away to some house because of a ps3 offer?

Look, only once....
......
Oh....KID....
Ya they'd have to be pretty stupid to fall for that......
 
Wrong and Wrong. :huh:

It's Sony's attempt at creating a gaming oriented social networking platform like Second Life. It has achievements (that have 3D representations and 3D 'Objects' as awards that can be used inside the world), but it is neither a rip off of Miis or a Ripe off of live. It's exactly what it is, the fact that it does something that blows Mii's out of the water is just a factor of what it is.

Basically this isn't meant to be the Sony equivalent of the features you see in Xbox live, it enhances some things beyond what Xbox live does (look at how the achievements work) but just because you can run into people in Home and all decide to play Resistance doesn't mean that match making in Resistance or features in future PS3 titles will disappear, forcing you to use the home interface.
 
This isn't matrix creppy to anyone i mean damn i like video games but this **** is wierd.... whats next brain plugs and dream advertisement fluck this is a mad world
 
A LITTLE MORE ELABORATION ON HOME AT IGN, COOL STUFF!!!:eek: :D :up:

GDC 2007: Harrison's Home
Find out what's free and how you can make your own unique skyline.
by Hilary Goldstein

March 8, 2007 - Phil Harrison put Microsoft on notice when he introduced Home, Sony's upcoming online community service. Borrowing from Nintendo's Miis and Microsoft's achievements, Sony is offering a virtual world as the new interface for the PS3. Your home is going to be where your heart is, Harrison hopes. Though Harrison toured Home's functionality in his GDC keynote speechhttp://media.ps3.ign.com/articles/771/771268/vids_1.html, he gave further details to a select group of bloggers at a low-key Sony event.

Currently, 500,000 PS3 owners in North American have registered for the PlayStation Network, about 50% of the current U.S. installed base. After Home launches this fall, Harrison believes the number of registered online users will increase significantly. Though he admits "it's not going to be for everybody," Harrison can't see any reason why 100% of PS3 owners won't mess around with Home in some capacity.

Home is meant to extend the gameplay cycle and keep gamers from trading in games at local retailers. Once a game is in the used bins, publishers and developers stop making money. But with Home, gamers unlock new items for their house and character based partly on the titles they play. One thing that Sony can't yet announce, but is looking into, is the possibility of having your Home avatar appear in the retail versions of games. "We've got so much cool stuff to share with you," Harrison promised, holding back additional functionality in Home that was not shown during his GDC presentation.

Since the big reveal, fans and members of the media have repeatedly compared Home to the PC social experiment Second Life. Harrison called such comparisons "way over-simplifying both" Home and Second Life. While the two do have characters walking around a 3D world, Harrison believes the similarities end there. Second Life is almost exclusively driven by user-created content, while Home is an entertainment-focused environment in which almost everything is provided by Sony or third party supporters.

Another big difference is that Second Life is rampant with cheaters, sexual predators and creepy people like yourself. Home adheres to Sony's parental controls. There are several blockers that can be switched on to keep people safe from abusive gamers. In fact, you can mute anyone in Home or choose not to see their character at all. And since there is not physical interaction between characters (sorry pervs), there's no reason anyone should be able to bug you for longer than it takes to hit a button on the Sixaxis controller. Community moderators are also being hired to roam the halls and make sure gamers play nice with one another.

Beyond abuse, a common concern has been the server size of Home. While no one at Sony is giving exact numbers, there is a hardcap limit of how many can be on a server at a given time. The overflow simply spills into the next server. And yes, there is a plan for intelligent grouping so that friends stay together on the same server.

Everything in Home sounds pretty damn cool, but it's hard to believe Sony can offer all of this and continue its model of having its Network be free of charge. Well, believe in miracles, because you can enjoy Home for free. Granted, selling premium content will be part of Home's business model (as will advertising), you do get quite a bit for free.

Once you download Home this fall, you have free access to all of the public spaces, your own character, some accessories, furniture and your own apartment. Other items, including additional clothing, are unlocked via premium content, offered free as advertising by third parties and earned by playing PS3 games. Pricing is not something Sony is ready to discuss, but Harrison said, "We have given it a lot of thought."

One cool way to upgrade your pad is by customizing the view out your window. Everyone's house has "the perfect view" so that no one is stuck looking down into an alley. However, there will be different options for what is outside your window. You may want to look out over a lake, for example. To make your lake view different than others, Sony plans to offer some extras to place in the background. You could put a boat floating out by the lake or perhaps have a flock of birds fly by in the horizon. So while many people will have the same base view from their apartment window, each can have its own distinct flare.

If none of this sounds appealing, fear not. Just about everything you can do in Home can also be done through the cross media bar. It just won't look as cool.
 
I can't wait for fall, hopefully I can sign up for the beta testing this April
 
Making an online apartment and walking around a virtual world seems kinda cool and all, but how will this enhance online gaming? I'm using X-Box Live and it works fine, I join the matches I want, I can invite friends to matches and be invited to matches. I really don't see how this Home area will be fun for more than a day or two or enhance the online gaming experience.
 
Making an online apartment and walking around a virtual world seems kinda cool and all, but how will this enhance online gaming? I'm using X-Box Live and it works fine, I join the matches I want, I can invite friends to matches and be invited to matches. I really don't see how this Home area will be fun for more than a day or two or enhance the online gaming experience.

WELL THEN DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT, IF YOU ENJOY LIVE THEN STICK WITH IT, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT!!!:oldrazz: BUT IF ANY OF YOU HAVE A PS3, PARTY AT MY PSHOME APARTMENT, BRING CHIPS AND BEER, OH AND IF YOU'RE A HOT BABE, THEN BRING YOURSELF!!!:oldrazz: :D :up:
 
Don't know if I'll worry about the beta.

I tell you what though, these extra clothes etc better cost pennies, not pounds cause there's no way I'm paying £1+ for a T-shirt I can put on my character...

I wouldn't be too fussed over buying a bigger home though.
 
i'm really glad that sony is turning it's image around with all this good news recently... they had a rotten run of things for a while, but i think they're ready to shed that image and show the gamers what they can do. this, i think, is just the start, and a damn good one at that. everyone likes to b!tch and moan about sony's online service, and i think this'll stop that.
 
i'm really glad that sony is turning it's image around with all this good news recently... they had a rotten run of things for a while, but i think they're ready to shed that image and show the gamers what they can do. this, i think, is just the start, and a damn good one at that. everyone likes to b!tch and moan about sony's online service, and i think this'll stop that.

I REALLY HOPE SO, PHIL HARRISON SAID IN AN INTERVIEW I SAW AT GAMETRAILERS, THAT THEY'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS!!! IT WAS ORIGIONALY SLATED FOR THE PS2 BUT THE HARDWARE WASN'T POWERFULL ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO DO ALL THE THINGS THEY WANTED TO INCORPORATE INTO HOME, SO THEY DECIDED THE PS3 WOULD BE THE PERFECT PLATFORM TO UNLEASH IT ON!!! I AM REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS AND WISH SONY THE BEST WITH THEIR ONLINE SERVICE, I THINK IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME!!!:D :up:
 
I just got through watching it in action on IGN. I'm very impressed; the presentation and general feel of it is a little wooden, and the interface might be a little cumbersome, but there's always time to improve. I like the idea. However, considering it's a free program run by Sony (notorious for over-hyping and under-delivering), I'll remain a bit skeptical. Cool stuff, though.
 
lmao, the Mii system sounds so ****ing ******ed. The Home system looks sweet, on the other hand, especially given that it's free.
 
You guys now that I'm no fan of the Wii but this is a total rip off of it. People aren't going to pay $600 just to play a second life rip off either.
 

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